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by Mad Hacker Snyder
Social Engineering
Remember that most hackers accomplish a cyber B&E, not through advanced programming techniques, but through social engineering. This is the process of getting passwords and user names through conventional means and trickery.
The most basic technique is simply going through the trash bins outside of a building. SHRED any and every piece of paper that you don't want somebody else to read!
If an adversary can gain entry to an office, which is very easy if they are employed at an establishment, he/she can peruse for blotters, notepads, post-its, etc., close to the computer with the USER NAME and/or PASSWORD for all the world to see! If your
memory is not reliable, write this information on a card and put it in your wallet.
Most people pick their home phone number, birthday, nick-name, or the name of a significant other for a password. DON'T FOLLOW THIS BAD EXAMPLE! Of course these will be the first things that will be tried.
The ratchet up is for the adversary, posing as a network administrator, to phone a user to
request, upon some pretext, the user name and password. DO NOT GIVE THIS INFORMATION OVER THE PHONE! It's very unlikely that anybody running a network would ever
make this sort of request. The mirror image of this tactic is, possibly after getting a list of names of new employees and tech support numbers from the garbage, for the hacker to call and either request a user ID and password or to claim that they've
forgotten one that was issued.
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